Congratulations to the 10 winners of Goodreads giveawaywho will receive the first 10 signed and dated copies of the limited one hundred I plan to distribute. The giveaway was amazing and having 555 readers request a copy of CyberWeird Stories was inspiring. Thank you for your interest and support. I am running similar giveaways for e-book and unsigned copies of both my short stories and the complete collection on Amazon – Search for Giveaways and D.C. Lozar.

In other news, I want to thank Book Review Village and William Bitner, Jr. for the fantastic five star review they gave CyberWeird Stories. His site and reviews are an amazing resource for enthusiastic readers and well worth a visit.

I finished reading “Cyberweird Stories: A Contagious Collection of Short Stories and Poems” by D.C. Lozar yesterday, but needed a day to travel back to reality before I sat down and wrote a review. I want to first say thank you to D.C. Lozar for gifting me an e-copy of this book. Thank you Dave, it was quite an experience. This is a collection of 23 short stories and a few poems. While the cyberpunk theme is pretty apparent in most of the stories, there are many layers to some of the other stories, where no emotion is safe or left untouched. D.C. touches on every emotion and beyond, especially in the poems in this book. Some of the stories were on the edge of Lovecraftian. Surrealism played a big part in many of the stories…so much so that I had to take a break after reading one story before starting another. The perspective and imagery in the stories were unique and multi-layered. I think the thing I like the most about this read is that is did not follow the rules of the genre, at least that’s my take on it. We would go from the most surreal story to a poem about 9/11 with such emotion and introspection. I also noticed that, and I’m not sure if it was intentional, that the color green played a big part in many of the stories. From taste, touch and smell there were greens, emeralds, jades and mints in eye color, landscapes and aromas. There is much to take from this read if you just allow yourself to let go, and be there for the mind blast journey that D.C will take you on. I look forward to reading more of D.C. Lozar and highly recommend this read to anyone who wants an intelligent, mindful and well throughout piece of wordsmithing. It’s fun to imagine where D.C. live in him imagination, it must be so much fun there!

Synopsis (from back cover): A collection of weird short stories that vivisect the concepts of transhumanism, steampunk, and cyberpunk in worlds that have evolved from our quest for immortality and innovation. From robots with contagious diseases to space explorers who stumble upon the birthplace of the Cthulhu, these stories twist preconceptions around the twin spindles of horror and science fiction to weave plots that will make you feel like you’ve just picked up a pulp fiction magazine from the 1920’s published in the 21st century.

The audiobook is being reordered by Alexander Daddy, and I’ve heard his narration of the first story and was amazed. We’re all in for a treat. His characterization and timing are impeccable. I’ll let you know as soon as I release it which should be in early August.

I’m working finishing the format and copyediting for a hardcover version and this will be available through Barnes & Noble in the coming weeks. I’m also releasing a 2nd edition copy of the print book on Ingram spark, but the first edition is still available through Amazon.

CyberWeird Storiesis finally finished. The cover is amazing and I couldn’t be happier with the fantastic stories inside. Available in e-book and print with the audiobook due to be released in late July. Thanks to everyone for your encouragement and support. The long wait is over just in time for your summer reading.

A boy bends down to examine a tiny bug on the cement. It has too many legs, mean pinchers, and its black shell glints metallically in the afternoon sun. Fascinated, he pokes at the wriggling creature with a twig and waves over his friends. A crowd approaches, but the bug is gone. Frantic, the boy slaps at his sleeves, runs his fingers through his hair, searching for the little monster that he knows has somehow gotten under his skin.

These stories are like that.

In the past, science fiction and horror writers were philosophic soothsayers who warned the public about scenarios that wouldn’t appear for decades. Now, the impossible happens the day after we think of it.

Nursing homes run by robots, androids that contract cancer, criminals sentenced to virtually experience their crimes as if they where the victims, printed people, children trapped in neo-ghost-cities were the adults have disappeared, and a space explorer who finds the homeland of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu.

These are just a few of the fascinating stories you’ll find wriggling across these pages.